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“Cheap heroism is always easy, and even to sacrifice life is easy too; because it is only a case of hot blood and an…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

There has seldom if ever a shortage of eager young males prepared to kill and die to preserve the security, comfort and prejudices of…

— Iain Banks

True heroism is minutes, hours, weeks, year upon year of the quiet, precise, judicious exercise of probity and care—with no one there to see…

— David Foster Wallace

Better not be a hero than work oneself up into heroism by shouting lies.

— George Santayana

a self-made martyr is a poor thing.

— Ellen Glasgow

It is an impressive truth that sometimes in the very lowest forms of duty, less than which would rank a man as a villain,…

— Thomas de Quincey

I think that the so-called average person often exhibits a great deal of heroism in getting through an ordinary day . . .

— Harvey Pekar

True heroism consists in being superior to the ills of life, in whatever shape they may challenge us to combat.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Heroism' often consists in keeping your head in an emergency and doing the best you can with what you have instead of panicking and…

— Robert A. Heinlein

Few of us will do the spectacular deeds of heroism that spread themselves across the pages of our newspapers in big black headlines. But…

— Wilferd Peterson

“I could have murdered a man today, but by not doing so I saved his life, and thus became a hero to myself. I’m…

— Jarod Kintz

Heroism is the antidote to evil.

— Philip Zimbardo